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        "\n# Feature importances with forests of trees\n\n\nThis examples shows the use of forests of trees to evaluate the importance of\nfeatures on an artificial classification task. The red bars are the feature\nimportances of the forest, along with their inter-trees variability.\n\nAs expected, the plot suggests that 3 features are informative, while the\nremaining are not.\n\n"
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        "print(__doc__)\n\nimport numpy as np\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n\nfrom sklearn.datasets import make_classification\nfrom sklearn.ensemble import ExtraTreesClassifier\n\n# Build a classification task using 3 informative features\nX, y = make_classification(n_samples=1000,\n                           n_features=10,\n                           n_informative=3,\n                           n_redundant=0,\n                           n_repeated=0,\n                           n_classes=2,\n                           random_state=0,\n                           shuffle=False)\n\n# Build a forest and compute the feature importances\nforest = ExtraTreesClassifier(n_estimators=250,\n                              random_state=0)\n\nforest.fit(X, y)\nimportances = forest.feature_importances_\nstd = np.std([tree.feature_importances_ for tree in forest.estimators_],\n             axis=0)\nindices = np.argsort(importances)[::-1]\n\n# Print the feature ranking\nprint(\"Feature ranking:\")\n\nfor f in range(X.shape[1]):\n    print(\"%d. feature %d (%f)\" % (f + 1, indices[f], importances[indices[f]]))\n\n# Plot the feature importances of the forest\nplt.figure()\nplt.title(\"Feature importances\")\nplt.bar(range(X.shape[1]), importances[indices],\n       color=\"r\", yerr=std[indices], align=\"center\")\nplt.xticks(range(X.shape[1]), indices)\nplt.xlim([-1, X.shape[1]])\nplt.show()"
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